Tried all advice on here, looked through every post and have done all that is needed.

Downloaded wargus for the windows PC as the instructions for use on my ubuntu desktop, are less than uselsss. It talks of using a CD and requiring a separate download for stratagus if you follow the readme. So went with this forums instructions. (which is a shame as my asus 1000 could really do with some games but installing on that is a no no with current instructions. What exactly is ./build? What kind of instruction is that?

Anyway I digress.

Copied the CD files after extracting using wargus on windows PC. did it for both expansion and basic files.

Copied onto phones MMC in the correct path.

Installed wargus using the app manager, clicked download and because it uses the extras devel' had to wait the extra half an hour because it always turns my N900 into an etch a sketch.

FINALLY was able to then click on icon. Takes five seconds of black screen and drops to desktop.

I haven't got sudo gainroot as I haven't enabled RD, so at the moment it is just files ripped from the original CD and the wargus app downloaded.

Anything other ideas that doesn't include massive amounts of command line editing?

I thought all N900's were the same phone, the same hardware. Seems odd so many people have difficulty. Anyone got it working after downloading from the extras-devel repository. Or most people using .deb files, which I just can't get my head round installing from. On a PC or the phone.